Assumptions:
1.) When he observed the stars, they weren't reddish.
2.) He predicted that something might be causing the stars to appear red.
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When Einstein published his general relativity, he thought of something called "the cosmological constant" Then, Edwin Hubble discovered that when stars appear redder, they are farther way from us.